So, the Frat-Boy says he now supports a min. wage increase (only if tax cuts come, too)

[Roland99]

Isn't that the same as saying he *doesn't* support it?

Why does this freak keep wanting to reduce taxes in a time of ever-increasing deficit spending??!

What sacrifice has he placed upon this country in a time of "war"? Well, other than millions sacrificing decent wages and healthcare and ...

[tbyg52]

1. You've been thumped,

you jerk. What makes you think you get to make conditions?

Send him bills ONE ISSUE AT A TIME. Up or down vote (i.e., sign/veto). Where have I heard that before?

[Roland99]

5. Even if it was one issue at a time, can you imagine the Signing Statement on this one?

:eyes:

[tbyg52]

13. Sure can,

and I can also imagine being able to get some corporate media attention to it, with single-issue bills and the Dems controlling the House and Senate.

The reason there's not more widespead outrage is that there's not more widespread information. I hope that's gonna change.

[magellan]

2. Are these the same tax cuts the Repugs tried to ram through

...with the minimum wage hike earlier this year?

[flobee1]

3. yes

Someone needs to come right out and say it
right on the floor

"congress has voted themselves pay raises multiple times. This november, the American people voted themselves a pay raise"

Its long overdue, and this scumbag still wants strings attached!


Impeach
if nothing more than to make an example of him

[magellan]

4. Figures

I thought maybe he'd mix it up, do something new and...altruistic. Ha. There's a word you won't find in Dimson's dictionary.

Never let it be said that George W. Bush** and the GOP ever did anything for the people of this country without putting their own greedy interests first.

[Javaman]

11. Or Americans haven't gotten a a raise since 1997!!! That's 9 years!!! nt

[Roland99]

12. We should let the free markets decide what the minimum wage should be.

:rofl:

[KharmaTrain]

6. He Was "Fer It" Last Year...

Remember that sham vote he tried to wrap around the Democrats in the past election? The bill was the Democrat's minimum wage proposal with the "poison pill" attached that made the tax cuts permanent. It tried to force Democrats to either vote against the minimum wage increase or for the tax cut (a majority voted against the tax cut!) while allowing Repugnicans the disengenuous campaign lie that they favored raising the minimum wage, but it was the Democrats who blocked it...and they did use that tactic.

The clock is running on the 2001 tax cuts. Numbnutz putz around and squandered his "political capital" and majority to get his cuts permanent and now is gonna try to "bargain" with the Democrats by holding up passing a minimum wage increase unless he gets a deal on tax cuts. Bank it. Literally. He will veto any minimum wage hike as "inflationary" that needs to be "offset" with tax cuts for employers...blah, blah, blah... This, he hopes will create a log jam on the Democrats 100 Hour plan and attempt to regain some popularity with the "fiscal" conservatives.

This boy lives in his bubble where money is "just there". He's never had to value it, work for it or do anything but spend someone elses. Wealth = ego = holiness in this asshat's world. Ye with the most toys and money wins and he has no concept of worth or value, thus assumes others will clean up his messes. And we will...we will...

[rurallib]

7. What kind of signing statement will he make

if he signs it? "I won't enforce this law".

[Roland99]

8. "I was crossing my fingers when I signed this bill. So, it doesn't count."

[rurallib]

9. "only htose making more than minimum wage when I signed this

are eligible for minimum wage"

[Orsino]

10. Republican sense of entitlement.

All their talk of free markets translates, whether or not they realize it, to life support for a hereditary ruling class.

[tbyg52]

14. Yep

Under their scenario, the money keeps moving upward, with no mechanism whatsoever to move it back down again. I'd like to see them in the position of having nothing to eat, drink, wear, or live in but their money. Not really, because of what that would do to the rest of us. But you see my point....